Sourcing Manager Facility Management & Utilities (Eastern Europe)

Position Purpose:

Sourcing Manager FM & Utilities (EE) - Facility Management drives the development of Spend Area practices for facilities and related service spend area in his region, across all manufacturing locations and head offices.

The incumbent role will report to the Sourcing Manager IFM & Real Estate MEU, collaborate to manage a EE FM spend of 10M$ and work in collaboration with Regional / Global FM Sourcing Managers to leverage business needs, regional market insights, risks and opportunities, and drive Regional and local Procurement goals.

The incumbent will be responsible of the deployment of Global / Regional sourcing strategy, and stakeholder management, to maximize total cost of ownership savings and Procurement value contribution. The role will involve leading sourcing activities including 'request for information/quotation/ proposal, negotiation and contracting as well as benchmarking activities for existing contractual relationships. Relationship Management with selected global/regional suppliers forms an important part of the responsibilities.

Sourcing Manager FM & Utilities (EE) drives Procurement value contribution to Mondelez International while ensuring compliance with policies, strategies and processes.

Other specific tasks include :

• Market intelligence / overview of supply markets / business need analysis
• Attend or lead meetings within their assigned geographical and/or material group responsibilities
• Develop and lead the execution of appropriate regional / country sourcing strategies in support of Global strategies
• Development and / or roll-out of relevant procurement tools (benchmarking, templates, etc.) and relevant best practices
• Execution of contracts and ultimate owner of supplier relationships
• Delivery against financial targets

Main Responsibilities:

Support global / regional strategy development and planning in the region

• Development of Global / Regional strategies in MEU for Facility management sub-Spend Area to drive business expectations.
• Regional supplier negotiation strategy and process.
• Support strategy execution within the region.

Collaborate and leverage Market needs and regional Insigh to the Regional FM sourcing Manager

• Ensure communication, reporting and leverage synergies for Global sourcing
• Attend to Global FM meeting/call

Support stakeholder engagement, collaboration of teams, and supplier relationships.

• Manage stakeholder engagement and alignment throughout the end-to-end sourcing process.
• Support global supplier relationship management (SRM) program for the assigned Spend Area & region.
• Manage commercial supplier relationships and contracts for its region

Accountable for regional / local productivity projects that ensure delivery against agreed financial targets

• Identify potential productivity/savings strategies and levers
• Obtain buy-in / endorsement from regional management and stakeholders for proposed initiatives
• Track project execution and report progress and achievements
• Execute initiatives within the areas of responsibility such as competitive bidding where appropriate, supplier performance evaluations, etc.

Propose sourcing solutions that streamline and optimize buying processes in line with overall sourcing strategies

• Ensuring full compliance to Procurement procedures
• Ensure streamlined and timely process to execution in systems
• Responsible to develop & Maintain Spend area card sourcing for each GMCS with LPR support

Support and Administrative

• Ensure all area/ local procure to pay requirements are fulfilled and necessary issue resolution is provided. Act as final regional EE FM escalation point
• Generate management reports as required
• Support / lead special MEU projects in the area of assigned responsibility
• Link, communicate, and support LPR team, organizing regular call and information sharing

Qualifications

1. Appropriate University Bachelor's Degree
2. Minimum 3 years of experience in Procurement and Supply Chain
3. Skills/Leadership Competencies: Strategic Sourcing and Negotiation, Project Management and Communication, Relationship Management, People and Change Management
4. Languages: Fluent English, Russian and Ukrainian is must